33 Apocalypse Ave (and eventually to Limbo City), Friday Afternoon

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Last week, Kathy had been an utter lump, eating ice cream and playing sad music and watching a lot of TV while she got used to life without the guys. This week wasn't actually much easier, but Kathy's tolerance for her own moping had run out and left her needing to do something that wasn't just dwell.

Fortunately, it wasn't like she was lacking in options. With the guys gone and Raven spending most of her time out in the woods, the house was just too big and full of memories. So she was moving back to the apartment above Luke's - along with Raven, at least nominally - and this week she'd really gotten her ass in gear when it came to packing. Most of the upstairs was packed, even if those boxes were still mostly stacked downstairs, and now she was just cleaning out their old rooms of the detritus the always seemed to accumulate under furniture and in corners.

Like this old credit card bill of Dante's from...April of 2017. Kathy snorted and rolled her eyes, preparing to toss it into the bin that was half-full of junk when she noticed that one of the items on there was in Hangul. Wait. Had Dante been learning stuff in Korean?

Wait. 김치 크림 파이. Was that a-- Kathy grabbed her phone and did a quick search and yep. It was pretty much exactly the kind of website she'd been expecting with a name like that. Definitely didn't have to do with desserts, that was for damn sure.

"Oh." She wasn't entirely sure what to make of it, especially since that was back when everything had still been really...rough...between them. They'd been friends, in a tentative kind of manner, but no more. So then why...?

"Hi, Portalocity? I've got a portal scheduled to Limbo City for later on this evening, but I was wondering, could I bump it up to earlier than that? Something this afternoon would be good, yeah."

[Open for calls, texts, and visitors before she goes, and LC folks afterwards!]

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"Well, yeah," Kathy said with a shrug. "But having nothing to hide isn't the same thing as it being my business. Just like having feelings isn't the same as being entitled to them."

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"Sure," Dante granted her. "But this is not like, a big dark secret or anything. I guess I wasn't ready to think of you like that yet? But part of me kinda wanted to?"

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Kathy nodded again, those last sentences recontextualizing some things and helping her get a little bit of a better grasp on how she was feeling.

"I never felt like it was," she said. "Or like you were trying to hide anything from me. I wouldn't even have looked at bill, except there was Hangul."

Which had caught her attention long enough to read it before she'd even fully realized what it was.

"And even then, the only thing that made it weird was that it was from then, you know? I mean, if you were looking at a site called Kimchi Creampies now, I'd probably just ask if you saw anything worth sharing."

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Dante laughed softly. "Think I get enough kimchi creampies of my own now," he teased. "You're hotter than any girl on that site."

He was biased.

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Just a little bit.

"Hey, I'm just saying, I'm not gonna interrogate your porn choices. You missed that phase by a few years," she said, her face relaxing into a smile again.

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Dante kissed her mouth quickly, now that he could. "Though I do remember this awesome vid in a shower..." he said.

Joked? Half-joked?

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She hadn't even realized she'd been giving off 'don't kiss me' vibes. But if he had, she probably would have just felt even more confused.

"Mmm, you think it's something I might be interested in?" she asked, interest kindling in her eyes. "I'll have to hear some details..."

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She'd been Very Serious. Dante tried to avoid kissing her when she was Very Serious; he didn't want to seem dismissive.

"So there was this hot Korean chick in this big-ass shower and she was like, totally in command," he said. "Made the guy play with her and then fuck her under the hot water."

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"Fuckin' closet masochist," Kathy teased, pulling him down for a kiss. "I'd make you kneel. And tell me how much you want."

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Dante was happy to kiss her. Dante was happy to kiss her slow and deep, thank you very much.

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She held him close, sliding her hands down to his chest. "Missed you," she whispered. "Missed you so much." And then went back to kissing him, her tongue laying claim to his mouth.

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"Missed you too," Dante murmured against her mouth an eternity later.

His own hands had wound up on her hips, his whole body shifting to bring them in closer.

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She moved with him, not even thinking about it. Dante wanted her closer. There was no way she'd do otherwise. Nibbling softly on his lower lip, she added, "Coming early was a good idea."

It had been two weeks. When was she supposed to start adjusting to being without them?

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"What made you decide to?" Dante asked, smiling faintly.

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Kathy blushed and ducked her head again. "I was really curious," she mumbled. "And not sure what to think. And didn't want to spin myself up or try to have this talk over the phone."

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Dante made a faintly amused noise. "What, did you think I was gonna say some shit or something?"

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Kathy was quiet for a few moments. "I thought maybe you'd been using the site to get over me. Like we'd interact and then you'd go home and, I dunno. Have a handy substitute." She huffed a small laugh at the inadvertent pun. "I mean, even if that was true, whatever, clearly you got over it."

And because he had, she very nearly didn't say the rest. But... "And how it felt in the early days even when we did start fucking and how sometimes it felt like you couldn't wait to get away. Or like you'd regretted it as soon as you came. And I'd wondered if maybe if the reason we were able to hook up at all was because you were pretending I was one of the girls you saw."

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Dante kissed her temple gently.

"No," he said.

He could go into details, but... 'no' covered it.

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It did. Sure, Kathy would have liked details, that's just who she was, but the 'no' was enough.

"But yeah," she said. "I came up with that on, like, the first five minutes and figured it was probably a bad idea to see what my brain could do with five more hours, you know?"

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"Then I'm glad you came," Dante said, and kissed her neck, and then her jaw.

"Honestly," he said, after another kiss, this time to her lips, "All I was probably thinking is 'wait, how the hell did I forget that Korean girls were hot?'"

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"Me too," Kathy said. "I'm trying to not wind myself up so much, but sometimes the only way to do that is by having someone else tell me I'm being silly."

She tilted her head, inviting him to trail kisses along her neck and throat.

"Sorry not sorry but kinda actually sorry that I ruined Korean girls for you for a year or so," she joked.

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"'sokay," Dante said, kissing his way on down. "I got laid real good by one after."

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"Still ruinin' 'em for you," Kathy said, her fingers grazing up and down his spine. "Just in the other direction now."

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Dante grinned at her. "You're the one true Korean chick for me," he promised her.

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"Aww, you do love me," Kathy teased, pulling in for another kiss. "What should we do with all this extra time we have now that I'm here early?"